Oracle Walks Back Rigid Patching Policy, Giving Cloud Database Customers the Release Flexibility They’ve Been Demanding If you’ve ever been in the middle of a carefully orchestrated EBS certification cycle only to discover that Oracle’s cloud infrastructure insists on provisioning your new database with a release update you haven’t tested yet, you know the frustration. On October 14,
Oracle Deepens Google Cloud Integration: Select AI Embraces Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Oracle continues to strengthen its multicloud alliance with Google by adding Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — Google’s rebranded successor to Vertex AI — as a fully supported AI provider for Select AI on Autonomous AI Database Serverless. Announced on October 13, 2026, this integration allows Oracle
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The End of an Era, the Dawn of Another: Oracle’s Database IDE Future Lives in VS Code On September 29, 2026, Oracle quietly shipped SQL Developer for VS Code version 26.3 — but there was nothing quiet about its significance. Just one week after the extension crossed the 1,000,000 install mark on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, this
Oracle Brings Select AI to the Java Ecosystem with an Official, Production-Ready SDK On September 22, 2026, Oracle quietly shipped one of the most consequential releases for Java-centric enterprise teams working with Oracle Autonomous AI Database: Select AI for Java 1.0.0. Published to Maven Central under the coordinates com.oracle.database.selectai:select-ai:1.0.0 and open-sourced on GitHub at oracle/java-select-ai, the SDK provides
Oracle’s Most Strategically Important Driver Aligns with 26ai and Closes the Thin-Mode Gap Oracle released python-oracledb 26.0.0 on September 10, 2026, and the version number alone tells a story. Jumping from the 4.x line to 26.0.0, the project now follows Oracle’s two-digit-year versioning scheme — the same convention used by Oracle Database itself. It’s more than cosmetic: the
Oracle Makes Its Move Into the Rust Ecosystem with a Pure Rust Database Driver Oracle has officially entered the Rust ecosystem. The company’s database driver team has released rust-oracledb, a pure Rust driver for Oracle Database that eliminates the need for Oracle Client libraries entirely. Currently in Beta and available on crates.io, this marks Oracle’s first official Rust
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The Privilege Gap Oracle DBAs Have Endured for Decades For years, Oracle DBAs faced an uncomfortable choice when managing access control: grant privileges object by object (tedious and brittle) or grant system-wide ANY privileges like SELECT ANY TABLE (dangerously broad). Every time a new table or package was created in a schema, someone had to remember to run
Oracle Changes Default Autonomous Database Version from 19c to 26ai — What You Need to Do Now If you provisioned a new Autonomous AI Database Serverless instance after September 15, 2026, and didn’t explicitly specify a database version, you may have gotten a surprise: your new database is running Oracle Database 26ai, not 19c. This is not a
Oracle Expands Agentic AI Capabilities to Dedicated Infrastructure with Ten New Select AI Features Oracle has made a decisive move in the enterprise AI space, announcing ten new Select AI capabilities for Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Infrastructure (ADB-D). At the center of this announcement is the Select AI Agent framework, powered by the new DBMS_CLOUD_AI_AGENT package APIs,
